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Show If tho report Is true that the Russian fleet made a sortie from Port Arthur and caught the Japanese squadron unaware, un-aware, sinking four or any of the vessels, ves-sels, it was a pioce of Inexcusable carelessness care-lessness on the part of the Mikado's men, For, of all things in war, and, especially in the face of such a stale of affairs as exists nt Port Arthur, with a state of siege on one side and a blockading fleet on the other, to be surprised sur-prised Is the one thing that every rulo of the game denounces. And If tho Japanese vessels are destroyed, as stated, It will be a hard blow, for Japan Is not able to make good her losses of ships as Russia Is, and a few such disasters dis-asters v.ould at once change the relations rela-tions of the two so far as mastery of the sea Is concerned. |